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Ezra Klein: belief

29 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Ezra Klein on Why We're Polarized

“If you are able to get hired by McKinsey, you’re able to get hired somewhere else. I think to a first approximation, there’s zero people who .”

— Ezra Klein

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Speaker
Ezra Klein
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
29 Jan 2020
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…It’s like the nonweird closet. I think that the arbitrage here is a bad one. People need to sit with their anxiety and find a better job. If you are able to get hired by McKinsey, you’re able to get hired somewhere else. I think to a first approximation, there’s zero people who . . . it’s like, you’re a Yale English lit grad, but you’ve won your thesis prize or whatever, and you don’t really know what you’re going to do, and McKinsey is willing to make you a great offer. If you waited, you would get another job. You’re a great communicator, you’re a smart person, don’t go to McKinsey. The Noah Baumbach Netflix movie Marriage Story.…

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